President Donald Trump’s rise to the White House has been accompanied by increasingly harsh rhetoric about immigration.

In response, local immigrant rights activists have decided to give Philly a taste of what the world would be like if proponents of mass deportations had their way. They've planned a “Day without Immigrants” (Un Dia Sin Immigrante) protest on Thursday.

“What if a good chunk of Philadelphia society was gone in one day? This is what we’re talking about,” said Miguel Andrade, an organizer with Juntos, an immigrants' activist group that is coordinating the protest.

Immigrants will be “closing shops, not sending their children to school and not engaging in consumerism,” Juntos said in a statement.

But a dip in economic activity isn’t the purpose of the protest, they said.

“The point of this is not only to show what the effects on day-to-day life are going to be like, business and restaurants not being open, but really showing what mass deportations would look like,” Andrade said. “This is your classmate, your neighbor, your coworker — and they could easily be gone in the blink of an eye.”

The Philadelphia Republican Party responded on Twitter to news of the planned walkout by stating, “We support legal immigration. We oppose illegal immigration.”

That’s a distinction Andrade rejected.

“No human being is illegal,” he said. “People think you just get in line, fill out a form, and come in the right way. But it’s a long and arduous process that costs thousands of dollars and takes years.”

Andrade isn’t exactly sure how many people will participate in the protest, but said another walkout is already planned for May 1.